Vigil@nce - TeX Live: buffer overflow via texlive-bin
November 2018 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can generate a buffer overflow via texlive-bin of TeX
Live, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to run
code.
Impacted products: Debian, openSUSE Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 21/09/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The TeX Live product processes Tex documents.
However, if the size of data is greater than the size of the
storage array, an overflow occurs.
An attacker can therefore generate a buffer overflow via
texlive-bin of TeX Live, in order to trigger a denial of service,
and possibly to run code.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/TeX-Live-buffer-overflow-via-texlive-bin-27289